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...paring down the amount that they owe the Government (see box). Says Paul D. Koehler, a partner of Touche Ross & Co., one of the leading accounting firms: "I'm up to my neck in tax forms. There's a tremendous amount of demand for us to interpret the new tax laws." Richard W. Earp, a partner in the Minneapolis office of Arthur Andersen & Co., noted that the bulk of new business has come from wealthy individuals, who are the biggest beneficiaries of last year's tax changes...
...deputy director of the Defense Intelligence Agency-picked up his pointer again to conduct last week's briefing on Nicaragua's military buildup. Hughes' performance was professionally impressive, yet questions remained about the reliability of the evidence he was called upon to interpret...
DIED. Gershom Scholem, 84, world's foremost authority on Jewish mysticism; in Jerusalem. A faculty member of Israel's Hebrew University, the Berlin-born Scholem made a respected discipline of the study of the Kabbalah, a system that uses metaphysics and mathematics to interpret Scripture...
...City Council decision not to fund the legal appeal of the Polednak judgement is inconsistent with past city practice. City departments interpret city ordinances and orders and establish regulations and administrative procedures to carry them out and enforce them...
Speaking during a recent interview with film critics in New York, Taps producer Stanley Jaffe insisted that his movie does not condemn military high schools in general. Instead, he said Taps questions "whether we really know what we are teaching our children and how they will interpret it." It's an interesting question, and one answer--which somehow manages to ooze out of this ill-conceived flick--is precisely the condemnation the producer intended to avoid...